Literary Figures
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The Road Washes Out in Spring: A Poet’s Memoir of Living Off the Grid
$19.95 Add to cartFor nearly twenty-five years, poet Baron Wormser and his family lived in a house in Maine with no electricity or running water. They grew much of their own food, carried water by hand, and read by the… [more below]
- Author: Wormser, Baron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1584657049
- Language: English
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Rain of Gold
$25.95 Read moreThis is the Hispanic Roots, an all-American story of poverty, immigration, struggle and success. It focuses on three generations of Villasenor’s kin, their spiritual and cultural roots back in Mexico,… [more below]
- Author: Villasenor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 551
- Publish Date: January 01 1991
- ISBN10: 1558850309
- Language: English
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The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War
$18.00 Add to cartAn incisive demonstration of how Orwell’s body of work was defined by the four major conflicts that punctuated his life: World War I, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the Cold War.
Few English
- Author: Stansky, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 150363549X
- Language: English
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Lives Other Than My Own
$19.00 Add to cartSELECTED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES AS ONE OF THE 50 BEST MEMOIRS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS
“You begin this memoir thinking it will be about one thing, and it turns into something else altogether–a book at onc- Author: Carrere, Emmanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 1250013771
- Language: English
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J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
$22.99 Add to cartRecent polls have consistently declared that J.R.R. Tolkien is “the most influential author of the century,” and The Lord of the Rings is “the book of the century.” In support of these claims, the pro… [more below]
- Author: Shippey, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 22 2011
- ISBN10: 0618257594
- Language: English
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Vol. 1, 1915-1919
$21.99 Add to cart“Nothing yet published about her so totally contradicts the legend of Virginia Woolf…. This] is a first chance to meet the writer in her own unguarded words and to observe the root impulses of her … [more below]
- Series: Diary of Virginia Woolf #1
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 04 2010
- ISBN10: 0156260360
- Language: English
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All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis, 1922-1927
$19.99 Add to cartA repackaged edition of the revered author’s diary from his early twenties–a thought-provoking work that reveals his earliest thinking about war, atheism, religion, and humanity.
While serving his cou
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: February 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0062643584
- Language: English
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A Frozen Woman
$15.95 Read moreWINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
A Frozen Woman charts Ernaux’s teenage awakening, and then the parallel progression of her desire to be desirable and her ambition to fulfill herself in he- Author: Ernaux, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 08 1996
- ISBN10: 188836338X
- Language: English
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Out of Place: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartFrom one of the most important intellectuals of our time comes an extraordinary story of exile and a celebration of an irrecoverable past. A fatal medical diagnosis in 1991 convinced Edward Said that … [more below]
- Author: Said, Edward W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 12 2000
- ISBN10: 0679730672
- Language: English
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Dry: A Memoir
$20.00 Read moreThe Tenth Anniversary Edition of the New York Times bestselling book that has sold over half a million copies in paperback.
“I was addicted to “Bewitched” as a kid. I worshipped Darren Stevens the Fir- Author: Burroughs, Augusten
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 23 2013
- ISBN10: 125003440X
- Language: English
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Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature
$28.00 Add to cartIn this now classic biography, reissued in a new edition for the 150th anniversary of Beatrix Potter’s birth, Linda Lear offers the astonishing portrait of an extraordinary woman who gave us some of t
- Author: Lear, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: May 31 2016
- ISBN10: 1250094194
- Language: English
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Paris France
$15.95 Add to cartCelebrated for her innovative literary bravura, Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) settled into a bustling Paris at the turn of the twentieth century, never again to return to her native America. While in Par… [more below]
- Author: Stein, Gertrude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 105
- Publish Date: June 24 2013
- ISBN10: 0871403749
- Language: English
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The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
$19.99 Add to cartMore than one year on the New York Times bestseller list! Richard Bach’s timeless and uplifting classic of hope and love
“We’re the bridge across forever, arching above the sea, adventuring for our ple
- Author: Bach, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0061148482
- Language: English
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The Books in My Life
$19.95 Add to cartSome writers attempt to conceal the literary influences which have shaped their thinking–but not Henry Miller. In The Books in My Life he shares the thrills of discovery that many kinds of books have… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Miller, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 27 2007
- ISBN10: 0811201082
- Language: English
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Tis: A Memoir
$19.99 Add to cartA #1 New York Times bestseller and the eagerly anticipated sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angela’s Ashes, this masterpiece from Frank McCourt tells of his American journey from impoverished immi… [more below]
- Series: Frank McCourt Memoirs
- Author: McCourt, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 29 2000
- ISBN10: 0684865742
- Language: English
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You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir
$21.00 Add to cartThe first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as a political activist of prodigious energies, Wole Soyinka now follows his modern classic Ake: The Years of Childhood with an equa
- Author: Soyinka, Wole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 13, 2007
- ISBN10: 0375755144
- Language: English
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America and Americans: And Selected Nonfiction
$19.00 Add to cartA Penguin Classic
More than four decades after his death, John Steinbeck remains one of the nation’s most beloved authors. Yet few know of his career as a journalist who covered world events from the- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437417
- Language: English
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A Child’s Christmas in Wales
$17.95 Read moreA reminiscence of Christmas, from the viewpoint of a young boy, that has been a holiday favorite for decades.
In rich, humorous, magical prose, poet Dylan Thomas recalls the church-going, the tree-tr- Series: Godine Storyteller
- Author: Thomas, Dylan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 43
- Publish Date: December 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0879233397
- Language: English
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Memoirs of a Beatnik
$17.00 Add to cartLong regarded as an underground classic for its gritty and unabashedly erotic portrayal of the Beat years, Memoirs of a Beatnik is a moving account of a powerful woman artist coming of age sensually a… [more below]
- Author: Di Prima, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0140235396
- Language: English
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Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life
$21.99 Add to cartInternationally bestselling novelist and American icon Tom Robbins’ legendary memoir–wild tales of his life and times, both at home and around the globe.
Tom Robbins’ warm, wise, and wonderfully weird
- Author: Robbins, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 14 2015
- ISBN10: 0062267418
- Language: English
